Current Seniors
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Senior Projects 2019 Does Aerobic Exercise or Cardiovascular Exercise Facilitate Explicit Memory?, by N. Ellin Stimulus Regulation in Pediatric Trichotillomania, by T. Lee A Wizard Hat for the Brain: Predicting Long-Term Memory Retention Using Electroencephalography, by N. Libby A Test of Obedience or Patience? A Modified Replication of “Nothing by Mere Authority” by Haslam et al. (2014), by J. Machen An Exploration of Musical Performance Anxiety (MPA) and Its Relation to Perfectionism and Performance, by G. Marko Keeping It In the Family: How Family Functioning and Environment Impacts Social Anxiety in College Students, by S. Prusky The Influence of the Harmonic Series on the Perception of an Unfamiliar Musical System, by L. Sandbank Helping Adolescents with Autism: Can Music Therapy Counteract the Effects of Hyperacusis?, by S. Sinclair Body Dissatisfaction: Searching for a Link between Depressive Symptoms, Body Image, and Eating Patterns, by L. Sorrell The Corporeal Specificity of Women: Gender Perception Along the Dimension of Mind and Body, by T. Su Idioms of Distress in Myanmar, by M. Thuyein Senior Projects 2018 The Effect of Facebook on Body Dissatisfaction: Ethnicity as a Possible Moderator, by H. Brown Lost in Translation: The Conceptual-Empirical Language Barrier between Criminal Law and Psychology, by E. Broughton Trust and Satisfaction in Long Distance vs. Proximal Relationships in Individuals Aged 18 to 22, by B. Ciallela Towards Improving Learning with Consumer-Grade, Closed-Loop, Electroencephalographic Neurofeedback, by Z. Hirschstein Cream of the Crop or Bottom of the Barrel: An Exploration of the Variability in Susceptibility to Social Influences Present in Genocides, by S. Sinclair Nothing tastes as good as starvation feels: Anorexia nervosa as a maladaptive mechanism of emotion regulation, by E. Fitzgerald The Unwilling Spectator: How Secondary Exposure to Trauma Through Journalism Affects Our Emotional Processing, by C. Riddick Not All Bad: Exploring The Link Between Psychopathy and Success, by L. Harker Everyday Ghosts: An Examination of Memory in Social Interactions, by S. Murphy The Way You Make Me Feel: Semantic Response Behavior Following a Status Prime in the Context of Romantic Relationships, by R. Konefal Attachment, Ethnicity, and Identity Development: A Longitudinal Study on the Effects of Non-Familial Care, by S. Such אמהות ותינוקות: The Adaptation of a Prenatal Postpartum Depression Intervention for Orthodox Jewish Women, by S. Klein Fostering Success: Factors Impacting Life Outcomes of Foster Care Youth in New York City, by W. Checo Senior Projects 2017 Distortion in Body Schema: The Influence of Body Fat and Mass on Perceptions of Personal Size by Katarina Ferrucci Human chameleons: Are biracial individuals with integrated racial identities more prone to body dissatisfaction? by Sara Genung An Obsession Matched Intervention Improves the Facial/Emotional Recognition Deficit in Children with Asperger’s Syndrome by Aurora Hoffman Executive Skills Training for Treatment of ADHD in Children by Veronika Kokorina Proposed Intervention to Improve Recently Immigrated Hispanic Adolescents’ Academic Performance and Psychological Well-Being by Samantha Lagville-Graham Facial Emotion Recognition Impairments in Subclinical Depression by Charles Leighton Remnants of the Bodice Ripper: How Consent is Characterized in Heterosexual and Lesbian Erotic Romance Novels by Audrey Malloy From Once Upon a Time to Happily Ever After: Grimms’ Fairy Tales and Early Childhood Development by Hannah McCarley Media and the Shooter Bias: Investigating the Relationship Between Implicit Racial Biases and News Coverage by Matthew Phelps Can You Feel Your Heart Beat? Exploring the Relationship Between Interoception and Suicide by Matthea Rile-Schmidt Excluded from Humanity: the Effects of Implicit Dehumanizing Views Toward Black Individuals in the Media by Joshua Velette Senior Projects 2016 Immigrants in America: The Relationship Between Acculturation and Well-Being, and the Validation of Self-Report as a Measurement Tool by Bolivia Williams The Effects of Reactive Aggression and Proactive Aggression on Heart Rate Reactivity to an Anger Induction by Bridget Bertoldi Could an Attachment Theory-Based Intervention Prevent Childhood-Onset Conduct Disorder? by Ariane Cruz Look Who’s Talking Now: Representation of Female Characters in Children’s Chapter Books by Rachel Swanson If It Looks Like a Dax, But I Call It a Wug, What Is It? Examining the Role of Essentialism in Children’s Social Categorizations by Helena Wippick Phonophobia Mediates the Relationship Between the Myelinated Vagus and Selective Mutism by Alexandra Batzdorf Do You Chill When I Chill? Exploring Strong Emotional Responses to Unfamiliar Musical Traditions by Eleanora Beier Do the Emotions ‘Shame’ and ‘Pride’ Alter Responses to Sexually Explicit Words in an Emotional Stroop Task? by Danielle Iserlis What’s Your Type? Readability of Fonts Across Native and Non-Native English Speakers by Maayan Eldar Primed for addictive behavior: Can popular mobile games act as triggers for addicts? by Zachary Goodman The Effects of Affective Arousal on Color Perception and Memory by Nicole Lang The Effect of Empathy on Implicit Bias by Chelsea Beckford The Effects of Mindset and Perceived Support on STEM Pursuit in Single-Sex and Coeducational High Schools by Lily Henry The Effect of Controllability Beliefs on Attitudes about Weight and Socioeconomic Status by Marna Dunne The Analysis of Moral Education in China and its Effect on Chinese Children’s Moral Development by Grace Shu Mad Men or Bad Men? How Gender Stereotypes, Individual Symptoms, and Participant Gender Affect Non-Expert’s Evaluations of People with Borderline Personality Disorder by Quinnehtukqut McLamore Just the way you are(n’t): Does identity disturbance contribute to romantic difficulties in borderline personality disorder? by Camille Thigpen An Attachment Style Based Experimental Design to Maximize Dog Adoption Success by Claire Weinman The Differences in Motor Memory in Music Performance Based on the Movement Characteristics of the Musical Instruments by Veronika Mojzesova Actual and Ideal Self-Concept Appeals in Cosmetic Advertising for Mass-Market, Luxury, and Prestige Brands by Margaret Stevens Senior Projects 2015 Fear Conditioning and Reconsolidation-Blockade in the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Emergency Responders by Mythili Ananthasayan Are You a Criminal?: A Senior Project Examining the Relationship Between Stereotype and Power Using Signal Detection Analysis by Pat Lichtenstein Sociality of Gaze Following in Black and White Ruffed Lemurs: Following a Live Person versus a Photograph by Hannah Mason The Influence of Gender and Diagnosis on Parent Perception of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders by Rachael Anders Cognitive Enrichment Intervention for Captive Orcas by Eve Copeland Beneath the Human Capital Investment: Modelling student debt awareness and a Critical examination of financial aid materials using Construal-level Theory by Sophia Sutcliffe A Shifting Standards Perspective on the Gender Gap in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics by Siira Rieschl Game and Train: A Targeted Game-Based Mobile Intervention for the Treatment of Incarcerated Psychopathic Offenders by Sydney Abualy Establishing an anxiety paradigm adapted for larval zebrafish: The effects of an anxiogenic on standard and color-enriched open field tests by Colleen Spratt The Effects of High and Low Valence Affective Faces on Facilitation of Learning in Children with Autism by Morgan Weil Exploring Gender Differences in STI Testing Behavior of College Students Using the Health Belief Model by Yasho Singh The Influence of Television on Attitude Change and Culture in the United States by Emily Stieker-Epstein Neuroplasticity in Art Therapy for Depression by Sofia Avsyuk by Anna Opatka A Mind-Body Approach to Healing: Investigating the Use of Yoga for PTSD and Trauma-Related Symptoms by Andrea Fronsman Effects of Acute Nicotine on Larval Zebrafish Exploratory Behavior in a Complex Environment by Brandon Chen Senior Projects 2014 The Sense Behind Senseless Violence: The Influence of Masculine Ideals, Self-Complexity, and Shame on Coping with Stress Through Extreme Violence by Christina Taggart Barone In Other Worlds: Word Play in Children’s Fantasy and Children’s Language Production by Amanda Sarah Benowitz Teaching Regulation Without Repression: Using the Jungian Shadow to Inform an Adaptive Socialization of Emotion by William J. Cordes Language and Sensibility: Bilingualism and a Broader Conceptual Store by Lydia Wistar Craighill Incidental Emotions and Trust Decisions: Visceral Influences on Economic Behavior by Idan Aviv Elmelech Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Stigma, and Survivor Guilt in Veterans of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom by Benjamin Greenwald Reaching New Heights: An Examination of Cognitive Dissonance and the Attitude Toward Height and Leadership by Emily Faith Harris “I’m Just Not a Math Person:” The Effect of Preconceived Notions of Failure or Success and Mindset on Math Performance by Beth Kimberly Hoffman Patalona Meditation-as-Therapy: How Buddhist Psychology Can Improve Health by Alison Marie Kidd Assessing the Validity of Danio rerio as a Model Organism for Nootropic Research: The Effects of Phenylpiracetam on Larval Zebrafish Behavior by Maximilian Clark Mueller “Am I Math Compatible?”: How Stereotype Threat Relates to Gender and Math Identification in Women by Elyse Murphy Neubauer The Effect of Rehabilitative-Oriented Training and Mission Statement on Prison Guard Attitudes and Behavior Towards Inmates With Mental Disorders by Dana Nicole Pitts Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Through the Lens of the Self-Medication Hypothesis by Rebecca J Samuels Storm and Text: Considering Social Anxiety and Communication Tendencies in Adolescence by Megan Smillie How Traditional is the Romance? Heroines, Stereotypes, and the Heterosexual Script by Tanya Lee Sorenson Transcending The Divide: Integrating Epigenetic and Psychoanalytic Explanations of Psychopathology by Sarah Anna Walser Decision Making and a Future Self: An Evaluation of Adolescents’ Self-Efficacy Following Peer Intervention by Micaiah Mary Williams The Effect of Induced Self-Efficacy on Team Performance: A Task Involving Hand-Eye Coordination by William H. Williams Senior Projects 2013 The Photovoice Process in Stress-Induced Depression: How Giving a Voice to the Unheard through Pictures May Reduce Stress by Adedayo Oluwaseun Okubadejo Determining the Efficacy of Medical Marijuana for Children and Adolescents Diagnosed with ADHD by Alexandra Caroline Vance Conventionally Unconventional: Learning About Words I Already Learned About by Anastasia Blank Differences in Playboy Magazine Advertisements From 1960 to 2010: Gender Role Stereotype and Routes to Persuasion by Anna Sofia Levenshus When Time Drags On: Does Anger Experience Enhance Time Perception Distortion? by Dennis L. Zhou The Moderating Effect of Siblings on the Relationship Between Theory of Mind and Executive Function in Preschool Children by Diandra Lora Kalish Contrasting Stigma: Negative Implicit Attitudes and Attributions about Depression Relative to ADHD by Douglas James Gazarian Destruction In Disguise? Examining Relationships Between Eating Disorders and Vegetarian and Vegan Diets by Emily Caroline Walsh The Potential Exacerbation and Earlier Onset of Bipolar Disorder in an At Risk Child Population Due To Methylphenidate Treatment by Gregory Alexandrovich Rudensky The Close-End Fund Paradox in Country Funds: A Conventional and Behavioral Perspective: Do news reports affect the movement of discounts? by Greta Petkova Tsolova Do you really want another slice? Overeaters’ implicit and explicit food preferences by Laura Ovadia Stereotype Threat Spillover in New Group Formation amongst Individuals of High and Low Socioeconomic Status by Marie Flowers Talking About the Mind: Mental-State Language and Theory of Mind Performance in Preschoolers by Mayer Andersen Combating Pediatric Obesity with a Universal Intervention for Elementary School-Age Children: A Tailored Program for Hinds County, Mississippi by Nicole Marie Haaser Theory of Mind as Empathy: Cognitive and Affective Empathic Deficits Counterbalanced in Autism Spectrum Disorders and Antisocial Personality Disorder by Rebecca Ana Bell-Gurwitz Psychobiological Influence of Estrogen on the Serotonin System in Anorexia Nervosa: A Grant Proposal for Treatment Effects by Rose Lauren Siuta Fingerprints of Nature: The Effect of Fractal Geometry on Emotion, Cognition and Creativity by Shinnosuke Seto Neurofeedback as a Treatment for Traumatic Brain Injury by Una Radovanovic “Follow your heart” – Chinese urban post-80 mothers’ expectations for their children by Wenjie Chen
Motivation in Minority Populations: Perceived Locus of Control and The Effect of Ethnic Matching, by M. Agosto